Barrs Joins Women's Basketball Staff as Director of Recruiting
Jul 02, 2025 | Women's Basketball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis women's basketball finalized their support staff for the 2025-26 season on Wednesday, with Chastadie Barrs joining as the director of recruiting.
Barr joins the Tigers from the College of Charleston, where she served as an assistant coach and director of operations for two seasons. The Cougars won a program-record 25 games in 2024-25, advancing to the semifinals of the CAA conference tournament and the Super 16 in the WNIT. In her two seasons in Charleston, the program's record was 47-18.
As a guard at Lamar University, Barrs was one of the most decorated defenders in college basketball history. A four-time Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year, she set the NCAA single season steals mark with 192 takeaways. She also led the nation in steals per game with 6.2 and finished her career with 648 total steals, the most recorded steals in an NCAA career.
The Desoto, Texas, native set a Lamar record with five triple-doubles, which was the second most in the NCAA in the 2018-19 season, while becoming the second player in NCAA history to score 1,000 points, collect 500 rebounds, dish out 500 assists and have 500 steals in a career. She finished her collegiate career ranking sixth in career points (1391), first in career steals (648), seventh in career rebounds (740), and first in career assists (717) at Lamar.
Barrs' professional playing career took her to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was named Defensive Player of the Year. She went on to build and lead the Hoop Culture DFW AAU program and coached grades two through 12 alongside her mother.
A Lamar graduate with magna cum laude distinction, Barrs studied corporate communications and was a two-time First-Team Academic All-SLC honoree. In 2024, she was honored as the only female inductee in the Lamar University Cardinal Hall of Honor class.
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